Honors Scholarship
Wick Poetry Center Honors Scholarship
$1,000 in scholarships will be awarded for the best poetry submitted by Kent State University Honors students. Winners will be chosen in collaboration with the Wick Poetry Center.
Guidelines
- These awards are nonrenewable. Undergraduates may reapply.
- The competition is open to any Honors undergraduate currently enrolled at Kent State University.
- The scholarship awards are to Kent State University only.
- All entries must be original and unpublished.
- Each entrant may submit one poem only.
- The poem should be no more than 100 lines long.
- The poet’s name should not appear on the poem.
- In the cover letter section of this form, poets must write their name, address, email and telephone number.
- Entries must be submitted between November 15, 2023 and April 1, 2024.
- WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED in MAY 1, 2024.
Additionally, the regional honors literary and arts magazine Brainchild will consider publishing the winning poem in the following year's edition.
2023 Winner
- Hannah Fender for "South"
2022 Winner and Finalists
- Sophia Swengel for “Future Shock”
FINALISTS: Anastasia Simms, Gabrielle Wheeler, Wren Baddour, Patrick Moorman, Olivia Wachtel, Olivia Farina
2021 Winners and Finalists
- 1st Place: Olivia Meyer for “You Are Who I Love”
- 2nd Place: Olivia Farina for “If old white men wrote more poems about flowers”
- 3rd Place: Gabriella Clingman: for “Messenger of Joy”
FINALISTS: Clara Britton, Haley Rixon, Angelina DiFranco, Olivia Wachtel, Christian Zupsic